Load Testing in the Cloud

cause & effect

Cause and Effect

Posted Wed, 03/31/2010 - 5:38pm by Scott Price

Performance engineering has much to do with finding what parts of a system are creating slowdowns or bottlenecks. Load tests are conducted to get the system to produce bad behavior (slow response, errors), and then you can correlate data from within the environment to see what caused the bad behavior.

As a geek, I love cool contraptions that involve cause and effect like dominoes all falling in a beautiful pattern. The breakfast cooking machines created by the Doc in Back to the Future - that kinda stuff.

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